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cine than by the lack OF 1t. when an
animal needs medicine, it needs q COM
petent physician.
Pure water and variety of wholesome
food regularly given, with comfortable
shelter and kind treatment, are the best
prcventivcs of disease.
We are yet Dec, 1887 in search OF
the man who at harvest blamed himself
for cultivating the crop too we'll, or who
in his old age regretted that ne had not
endorsed for q friend oftener.
A mortgage on the home makes the
freside gloomy, for it shuts out the SUM-
shine of prosperity and freeheartedness.
Some men look at the sky only to fore
cast the weather, see more beauty in
dollar than in bed of flowers, and will
hear the crow in corntield quicker than
the lark in the air.
Say to your work as Christ said to
Satan: "Get thee behind me-" Work
travels fast when once it gets in the
lead.
is easier to destroy the weed in April
than in July; and weed allowed to seed
the land will plague you like Banquos
ghost.
Better is it to have one pair of trousers
with money in pockets, than two pairs
with empty pockets.
The man with clean stables and fields,
well-housed cattle and implements, and
who has dollars for books but not cent
for rum, is desirable debtor. But he
does not borrow often.
Three fourths of us unknowngly re-
duce our capital each year. For the fer
tility of our land is our capital, and this
we lessen.
The horse knows all that the colt
learned, and boys tormenting the colt
are not teaching it what it should
know.
Men do not gather roses from thistles,
nor plump, bright gooseberries from the
bash that grows in the sod, and IS
pruncd only by nature.
1t is better and cheaper to mend the
flucs in midwinter than to build a new
house in spring, though the insurance
company contributes to the new build
ing.
The more often the currycomb rubs
against the horses's sides, the more days
his sides will rub against the harness.
The man who buries his wealth in the
earth is blamed; yet the farmer who
buries wealth, in the form of tile drains,
is wise.
Two many forget that only from the
best milk can the best butter be made;
and that only from the best cows can
the best milk be obtained.
System worked ten hours day, and
was done. Haphazard got up at four in
the morning, hurried all day, and was
doing chores at half-past nine at night.
There are men who compel their wives
to milk COWS, sitting in the snow on the
lee side of a rail fence, yet who declare
themselves to be Christians.
The Jack of all trades is master OF
none, yet good farmer may with profit
become fair carpenter. A workshop is
better stormy day retreat than Is
corner grocery.
Job had much patience; yet 1t was
fortunate for him that he did not join
fences with neighbor who had breachy
stock.
The man who fills his icehouse pro-
vides himself with conservator OF
health, and servant of pleasure.
What IS said about keeping animals
warm during the winter, does not apply
to m nure. Smoking is more injurious
to the compost heap than to boys.
1t is cheaper to keep pound of flesh
on the animal in February and March
than to regain it in May or June.
Depending upon novelties for your
principal crops is breakfasting on ella
tion, dining on hope, and supping on
sorrow.-American Ayieulturist.